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Luis Posada Carriles Gives the Lie to George Bush's 'War on Terrorism' Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 32, Number 24, June 17, 2005 Luis Posada Carriles Gives the Lie To George Bush’s ‘War on Terrorism’ by William F. Wertz, Jr. Immediately after Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush National Foundation (CANF).2 righteously threatened any nation that “harbored terrorists.” In March, when Rodrı´guez made this threat to Cha´vez, But now, EIR investigations show that the Bush Administra- Posada had just entered the United States via Mexico, using tion itself is harboring a nest of terrorist assassins in Jeb a false passport, and was seeking asylum from the G.W. Bush Bush’s Florida—foremost among them being the Cuban- Administration for past services rendered. On June 4, 2005, born operative Luis Posada Carriles, whose career in terror- the Venezuelan newspaper El Universal reported that both ism and intelligence “black bag jobs” spans more than President Cha´vez and Venezuelan Vice President Jose´ Vi- four decades. cente Rangel accused the Pentagon and the CIA of planning On March 10, 2005, long-time CIA asset Fe´lix Rodrı´guez to invade Venezuela and assassinate Cha´vez. Cha´vez has de- Mendigutia called for U.S. military intervention in Vene- manded that the Bush Administration extradite Posada to zuela, and alluded to the possible assassination of Venezuelan Venezuela, a request that Washington has not yet formally President Hugo Cha´vez, on a Miami TV program.1 Rodrı´guez ruled on. Cha´vez has also charged that former Venezuelan had been the CIA liaison with the Bolivian forces that cap- President Carlos Andre´sPe´rez, who was the Minister of the tured and executed Ernesto “Che” Guevara on Oct. 9, 1967; Interior from 1962-63,3 is involved in operations against him. he later ran the Contra resupply operation in El Salvador in The terrorists that Bush and Cheney are protecting, are the 1980s, to overthrow the Nicaraguan government on behalf now posing a threat to the emergence in Ibero-America of a of Vice President George H.W. Bush and CIA death squad combination of sovereign nation-states potentially oriented organizer Ne´stor Sa´nchez. towards supporting Lyndon LaRouche’s proposal for a New Rodrı´guez’s deputy in the Iran-Contra operation was Luis Bretton Woods monetary system. The potential for such ac- Posada Carriles, who had just escaped from a Venezuelan tion was reflected in the March 29 summit of the Presidents jail, where he had been incarcerated in connection with the of Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela, and the Prime Minister bombing of a Cuban airliner off the coast of Barbados in of Spain at which historic agreements were reached for eco- October 1976, which killed 73 people. Rodrı´guez was in- nomic development and integration. That summit took place volved in Posada’s escape in 1985, which was effected by just a few weeks after Fe´lix Rodrı´guez issued his threat to means of a bribe reportedly paid by Jorge Ma´s Canosa, the Cha´vez. now-deceased head of the anti-Castro Cuban American Much of the material accumulated for this report has been derived from extensive counterintelligence investigations 1. On March 10, 2005, Cuban-American journalist Maria Elvira Salazar conducted an interview on cable TV Channel 22 in Miami, Florida, with Luis 2. www.afrocubaweb.com/posada.htm. See “Gusanos de Miami e intelectu- Pin˜a, from the anti-Cha´vez Venezuelan opposition, and with Fe´lix alesMexicanos:Confundenderechoshumanos ycontrarrevolucionbySalva- Rodrı´guez. Rodrı´guez said that if called upon, he would consider coming out dor del Rio at www.m3w3.com.mx/SIEMPRE/2279/columna/Column- of retirement and going back to Venezuela to take action against President a10.htm1. The Miami Herald, Sept. 5, 1988, reported that his escape was Cha´vez: “I think they are going to have to do something,” he said. When aided by an unidentified Miami benefactor and by Fe´lix Rodrı´guez. Accord- pressed by the interviewer, Rodrı´guez replied, “Yes! There are contingency ing to the NY Latino Journal, in his autobiography, Posada thanked Ma´s plans!” He continued that for “national security reasons . there could be Canosa for providing the money for the bribe. Andre´s Jose´ Arana Me´ndez, economic measures at a certain moment, including military measures,” but the chief of the prison, admitted that he helped Posada escape for $28,000. it is “hard to say at this moment” whether a CIA commando could be sent to (FBIS, Jan. 23, 1985). put an end to Cha´vez. Any action against Cha´vez would be done openly, he 3. As a ranking officer in the Directorate for the Services of Intelligence and said. “Look, at a certain moment, he [President Bush] can do it militarily. Prevention (DISIP) beginning in 1967, Posada was employed by the Ministry Rememberthespecificcase ofQaddafi:Theydiditmilitarily withaplane,and of Internal Relations. CAP had been the Minister of Interior from 1962-63. after that Qaddafi did not pose a problem any longer.” When the interviewer Orlando Garcı´a, who had been head of operations of Digepol, the precursor objected that “that’s not physically eliminating Hugo Cha´vez, which is the of the DISIP, became CAP’s personal security advisor in 1964. When CAP question,” Rodrı´guez concluded: “At a certain point, they can do it with a became President in 1974, he appointed Orlando Garcı´a head of operations military attack with a plane.” of the DISIP. 28 International EIR June 17, 2005 © 2005 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. The case of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is drawing widespread international attention, because of the bind it places President Bush in. The New York Times put the story on its front page on May 9. into a former associate of Lyndon LaRouche, Fernando Qui- vez Democratic Bloc in Venezuela, met with DINA chief jano, who was turned by U.S.-based and other intelligence and Operation Condor operative Juan Manuel Contreras networks associated with the presently continuing Western Sepu´lveda in 1993 on Quijano’s behalf. Quijano and his asso- Hemisphere operations described in this report, such as those ciate Marivilia Carrasco of Mexico were also directly in associated with Chilean fascist Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s contact with Spanish fascist Blas Pin˜ar, who is at the center “Operation Condor.”4 of this Fascist International. As EIR has reported, Operation Condor was formally es- tablished in Santiago, Chile on Nov. 25, 1975, after Pinochet Posada and the CIA’s Cuban ‘Gusanos’ and 50 members of his secret service, the DINA, attended the Now, to the case of Posada Carriles, and what it reveals funeral of Spanish fascist dictator Gen. Francisco Franco in about Bush’s “War on Terrorism.” Madrid. Pinochet had been inspired by Franco, whose war to Posada joined the CIA’s Brigade 2506 in 1961, as part of crush the Second Spanish Republic, launched in 1936, was CIA director Allen Dulles’s abortive “Bay of Pigs” invasion directed by Adolf Hilter’s Ibero-American Institute in Berlin, of Cuba. Posada, Orlando Bosch Avila, and Fe´lix Rodr´ıguez which was headed by Nazi Gen. Wilhelm von Faupel. were also members of the elite intelligence unit called Opera- Quijano became a controlled asset of Leesburg, Virginia tion 40. Other members included Ricardo “el Mono” Mo- resident Ne´stor Sa´nchez in the mid-to-late 1980s, and was rales Navarrete, Virgilio Paz, Jose´ Dionisio Sua´rez and the also known to have met with Jorge Ma´s Canosa. Quijano’s Novo Sampoll brothers, Guillermo and Ignacio.5 Venezuelan agent Alejandro Pen˜a, now within the anti-Cha´- Operation 40 has been suspected by some of involvement in the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on 4. See William F. Wertz, Jr., “Schools’ Plot: Who’s Snuffing Your Neigh- Nov. 22, 1963. Posada Carriles himself was placed by at least bor’s Kittens?’ EIR, April 19, 2002; “The Cristero War on Mexico: Syn- one witness in Dealey Square in Dallas, at the moment of the archism Then and Now,” EIR, July 25, 2003; “The Nazi-Instigated National Synarchist Union of Mexico,” EIR, July 9 and July 16, 2004; “The Ibero- American Solidarity Movement; Anatomy of a Fascist Intelligence Opera- 5. Interview by Jean-Guy Allard of Gen. Fabia´n Escalante, the ex-chief of tion,” EIR, Feb. 25, 2005; “Nazis, Operation Condor, and Bush’s Privatiza- Cuban intelligence and author of The Plot (Ocean Press). The interview is tion Plan,” EIR, March 25, 2005. cited on www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKposada.htm. EIR June 17, 2005 International 29 assassination.6 Others have pointed out that Orlando Bosch involved in a plot to assassinate Fidel Castro on a visit to and Guillermo Novo, among other Operation 40 operatives, Caracas on Nov. 31.16 travelled to Dallas a few days before the assassination.7 This same unit was deployed in the 1970s to participate The Venezuelan Connection to in Operation Condor. In December 1974, Orlando Bosch, Operation Condor Guillermo Novo, and Dionisio Sua´rez travelled to Santiago, In March 1974, Chilean DINA chief Juan Manuel Con- Chile to offer their services to General Pinochet.8 It was treras visited CIA Deputy Director Vernon Walters. Walters Sua´rez and Virgilio Paz who later triggered the bomb that then sent eight high-level CIA agents to give classes in Chile, killed former Chilean Foreign and Defense Minister Orlando which lasted until August 1974. At that point, the chief of the Letelier and his associate Ronni Moffitt in Washington, D.C.
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